Oh No! It's a List

 



OK, those of you who are totally uninterested in those lists of goals people make can laugh at the face and stop right now.

Otherwise, if you are brave or curious or sadistic (you'd like to watch yet another listmaker crash and burn) or whatever... read on.

Let me first say that my life for the past while has been sort of on hold. We have some stuff going on that makes it difficult for me to plan ahead. Result... nothing is really happening on where I'd like to be in a few years.

A while back, when blog networks were going gung ho, there were quite a few people making lists of 100 things in 100 days, or whatever. I liked a few of those. Some people were really earnest about it and working hard to make things happen. This isn't the same as a bucket list. Those are big things you want to do before you croak, to mix a metaphor and put the frog in the pail.

So, I started making a list. Just a list that would begin to get my life back on the track I want to be on. I was thinking 100 things in 300 days. Allowing for me to be chronically late, I figured that would be good for a year. However. Soon I realized that I was starting to put too many huge goals on the list. So I took a few of them off. Now, I've been working on this for more than a week, and still don't have 100. So be it. Here's most of my 54 in 300 list. I'm choosing to not share a few of the personal ones. I'll probably keep you updated on intermediate steps as we go along.

My overall goal is to get some discipline back in my life and move closer to being a (nearly) full-time writer. When I was writing North Country Cache, I had a daily schedule that worked well, and I'm hoping to revive that, as much as I can with the other two jobs.

These are not in any sort of priority order, at all.

54 in 300
Number	Category	Item
1	WRITING	begin working on North Country Quest again
2	WRITING	edit Kiss of the Butterfly, submit for publication
3	WRITING	100 NC History pages
4	WRITING	blog about 8 wild foods
5	WRITING	finish Dead Mule Swamp Druggist
6	WRITING	do 10 book promotion things
7	WRITING	writing schedule day 50 times
8	WRITING	5 entries in Off the Sanctuary Wall
9	WRITING	pursue a contract I can't name yet
10	WRITING	talk to 5 bookstores about carrying mysteries
11	HOUSE	fix kitchen drawer
12	HOUSE	cut down 5 autumn olive trees
13	HOUSE	clean refrigerator twice
14	HOUSE	replace kitchen faucet
15	HOUSE	get lawnmower fixed
16	HOUSE	clean terrace
17	HOUSE	kitchen light electric box
18	HOUSE	replace faucet by washing machine
19	HOUSE	put away model railroad stuff
20	HOUSE	spend 10 hours sorting books
21	FITNESS	increase to 30 pushups
22	FITNESS	increase to 100 jumping jacks
23	FITNESS	increase to 2 min planking
24	FITNESS	walk, bike, ski or snowshoe 200 times
25	HIKING	NCT Hike 100 Challenge for 2016
26	HIKING	visit 5 new MI counties to explore trails
27	HIKING	hike 100 more miles of the Buckeye Trail
28	HIKING	clear my trail better
29	PERSONAL	Savings Goal
30	PERSONAL	Financial Goal #2
31	PERSONAL	lose 10 pounds
32	PERSONAL	play music 50 times
33	PERSONAL	other #1
34	PERSONAL	other #2
35	MISC	make 21 quarts juice
36	MISC	try 10 new wild foods
37	MISC	some genealogy stuff
38	MISC	100 more pix on Shark Shots
39	MISC	2 photo cards documented
40	MISC	give 10 gifts from my kitchen
41	MISC	eat at Brenda's Burgers
42	MISC	eat at Country Critters
43	MISC	take my trailer on 2 trips
44	MISC	finish monkey booties
45	MISC	get two programs NCT and Kitchen Sink
46	MISC	get rid of 100 things
47	MISC	read or listen to 100 books
48	MISC	move NCC from Josh's garage
49	MISC	short bios of 5 relatives
50	MISC	sort my fabric
51	MISC	do something inside my trailer
52	MISC	add 50 things to family heritage list
53	MISC	some VCR tapes to DVD
54	MISC	some cassette tapes to CD

Wish me luck; I'll need it. But, if you aim for nothing you are sure to hit it.

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